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the OAS investigation of Guatemala, and it also con- tains the following tantalizing message: Impossible to give proof of what is happening in Cuba[.] Members of the Premier's personal guard have been shot [according to] some sources of informa- tion. §j* By mid-June 1960 plans were well in hand for establishing training activities in Guatemala. Roberto Alejos, who had gone from Washington to Miami, had been introduced to Casimiro (Chick) Barquin of DPD the Agency's air arm -- who was about to take off for Guatemala to survey the airfields at San Jose and Retal- huleu, to check the airstrip at Peten, and to see what other airstrips might be available. Robert Davis, 1 was in Miami to perform the introductions. - - - - - - - - As proved to be the case in Nicragua, ---'=====,------ 1 _____IGUatemala planned to iso.late I Iactivities from the PM and communications training programs which * In Spanish the message read as follows: PRUEBAS LO QUE PASA EN CUBA IMPOSIBLE DARLAS FUSILARIAN MIEMBROS GUARDIA PERSONAL PREMIER UNA DE LAS TANTAS FUENTES INFORMATION STOP. Apparently in the transmission or in the cablese some words and punctuation were lost,' omitted, or goofed up.